Iraqi Protesters Demand Reform

Thousands of Iraqis take to the streets of Baghdad to protest corruption and a lack of basic services. Video courtesy Reuters. Photo courtesy Associated Press.

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... the the ... thousands of Iraqis to to the streets on Friday to resume protests against corruption ... and lack of basic services in Iraq ... up in the capital around two thousand Iraqis gathered in central Baghdad's Here's Square ... for a second consecutive Friday ... armored vehicles and security forces lined the streets around the square and nearby gym re entry into the cloth top ... eight years after the US-led invasion which ousted dictator Saddam Hussein ... developments in Iraq is weak with shortages in food water electricity and jobs ... one protesters claimed that they are demanding that their standard of living ... we are not seeking to change the regime that are seeking reforms way because we are sons of Iraq and we are living in Iraq during difficult circumstances ... the demonstrations are not aimed at any particular political leader what is that we are here because we love are all in one community at the Ross Sea this is the only hope that the government was serious ... about the demands ... of of of of them as it opened up ... from five to around seven hundred people protested near the provincial council building ... were forcibly removed by Iraqi army and police acted in refuse to stop demonstrating ... journalists attending to report on the protests were also beaten by security forces ... according to a Reuters reporter at the scene ... after last Friday's Day of rage Iraq ... Iraqi Prime Minister Neary iMaxi told his ministers that they had one hundred days to step up reforms ... of the fire ... meanwhile in Sadr CDE seem that that hundreds of followers of anti US Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al Sadr attended a rally to support the Libyan uprising against the the sheen of President Mohamed Ghadafi ... the firm the employees of foreign military intervention there ... Sadr has its use Western nations of planting agents in and stayed ... in supporting dictatorships ... in intervening in the name of democracy ... Mandy shiny Reuters ...